Table 1.

Involvement of various Brassinosteroid--regulated genes in plant growth and development.

Gene	Description of Gene	Crop/Plant	Role in Growth	Reference
CESA	The CESA gene superfamily, encoding the catalytic subunits of cellulose synthase	Arabidopsis (A. thaliana)	Plays a role in regulating the cellulose synthesis	[90]
CYCD3;1	Cell division markers	Arabidopsis (A. thaliana)	Needed for normal cell cycle progression	[51]
Histone lysine methyltransferase SDG8	In Arabidopsis, there are 43 SET Domain Groups (SDG), which contain proteins with conserved SET domains	Arabidopsis (A. thaliana)	Involved in BR-regulated gene expression	[62]
WRKY46, WRKY54, and WRKY70	The WRKY family TFs are composed of over 70 members in Arabidopsis	Arabidopsis (A. thaliana)	Play positive roles in BR-regulated plant growth and drought stress	[61]
Brassinazole-resistant 1 (BZR1), and BES1-interacting MYC-like proteins (BIMs)	BZR1; BR-activated transcription factor (TF) and BIMs; bHLH TF	Arabidopsis (A. thaliana)	BR signaling promotes vegetative growth by inhibiting the floral transition	[91]
Transcripts of autophagy-related genes (ATGs)	Autophagy-related genes	Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)	Enhanced level of BR triggers ATGs and formation of autophagosomes	[92]
VvHMGR	Plays a role in the mevalonate (MVA) pathway	Grape berries (Vitis vinifera)	Involved in increasing the anthocyanin content and promoting coloration. Accumulates the fruit sugar components, and decreases the tartaric acid content	[93]